Selected clips will be made into a movie scheduled to be released next year that will be directed by Mehta. Anyone whose footage is included will be listed as "co-director," a press release from Google Inc. said.

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Scott, who will serve as an executive producer with Kashyap, said it did not matter how small or personal the footage was - from riding a bike to calling your mum. "It just simply needs to bear witness to what life is like in today's India - that's magical enough," he said.

Mehta, a Canadian filmmaker who directed "I'll Follow You Down," said the project was so personal to him that he believed that film was a perfect way to showcase what makes India "so extraordinary and dispel its myths."